Last week a freighter called Ice Prince sank, shedding 2000 tons of timber into the sea. Over the last couple of days it has been washing up.

That's a lot of wood. picked by Pocksucket 2 years ago

The title says it all. Its amazing how some of the things are just describing what we take for granted and think always existed (ie. cellphones). picked by iduffee 3 years ago

He's doing it for charity - don't know too many 20 year olds who could pull it off! picked by BrownTrout 2 years ago

Australia faked it too! picked by topofall 1 year ago

Ted Howard wrote almost 100 love letters to his wife, Molly. 15 years ago she tore them into ~ 2000 pieces after finding someone reading them. Molly has since passed and it took Ted those 15 years to reconstruct all 98 letters as a testimony to his love. picked by 2manyusernames 12 months ago

The Banaue Rice terraces found in the mountains of Philippines is dubbed as the "Eighth Wonder of the World" with a reason. More than 2000 years ago, these terraces were made using bare hands! picked by deepcleanfun 2 years ago

that's right, 2000 uses.#93 Kick it in the face of 97 lb.weaklings in the lunchroom.#1832 Stick newspaper articles into your scrapbok with it. picked by soulslasher6 2 years ago

The sheer quantity of young penguins that have washed up on Brazil's sun-drenched beaches this year has confounded nearly everyone who comes in contact with them. picked by muppet 1 year ago

Archaeologists digging in western Japan have excavated what they believe to be the oldest remains of a melon ever found. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

An amazing collection of mashups. Over 2000 available!
A mashup is basically two songs mixed or mashed together.

From Missy Eliot vs. Bob Dylan to
The Spice Girls vs. Eminem, its all here! picked by LatueOfStiberty 3 years ago

Some extremely dedicated hypermilers took a Honda Insight to the Max by getting over 2000 miles on a tank of gas, averaging well over 150 mpg. picked by zadscmc 3 years ago

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, often the harbinger of bad news about e. coli outbreaks and swine flu, recently had some good news: The life expectancy of Americans is higher than ever, at almost 78. picked by Bornbad 3 months ago

He wanted a couple of credit cards. He got a couple of thousand. Manhattan accountant Frank Van Buren found himself flooded with plastic in recent weeks, as the ExxonMobil cards kept on coming. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

Amazing collection of postcards from the dawn of the twentieth century that depict what life would be like in the year 2000. picked by Wasabi 3 years ago

The Israel Antiquities Authority says archeologists have discovered a 2,000-year-old gold earring beneath a parking lot next to the walls of Jerusalem's old city. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

A minivan covered with parking tickets and debris had been sitting on the street long enough that a city marshal was finally dispatched to have the 2000 Chevrolet Ventura towed on Wednesday morning. But a grisly surprise was waiting inside.

*I used to live a few blocks from there* picked by suebe 6 months ago

The National Library of France (BnF) has an amazing collection of prints from 1910 which depict life in the year 2000. picked by maxriter 2 years ago

President Obama is meeting with the families of victims from the Sept. 11 attacks and the USS Cole bombing, after a military judge on Thursday dropped charges against a suspect in the 2000 Cole bombing.
I would be upset if I was one of the family members! I feel for them picked by missy1979 10 months ago

Started making art with barcodes right before Y2K, inspired by the year 2000 computer bug, and threatening digital apocalypse. picked by Bornbad 1 year ago